What's on: Thursday's picks by ST Life!

Thursday's top pick

HEARTSPACE @ ST MARY'S EXHIBITION 2012: "PAINTING OUR WAY INTO GOD"

Forty budding artists from various walks of life and religions will showcase 200 of their acrylic, oil and water colour artworks at the HeARTspace@St Mary's annual exhibition to help raise funds to support the HeArtspace@ St. Mary's Open Studio. Where: Church of St. Mary of the Angels, St Clare Hall, 5 Bukit Batok East Avenue 2 MRT: Bukit Batok When: Till Sun , 6 - 10pm (weekdays), 9am - 8pm (weekends) Admission: Free Tel: 6567-3866 Info: www.stmary.com and e-mail heartspace.stmary@gmail.com

Classes

GROUP WORK FOR MANAGING CHRONIC STRESS AND ANXIETY

Find new coping skills to alleviate the distress of chronic stress and anxiety. Share your stories and experiences at this group session led by a facilitator. Organised by the Singapore Association for Mental Health (SAMH).

South Korean cellist Han-Na Chang, who shot to fame at the age of 11 after winning the 1994 Rostropovich International Cello Competition, will make her Singapore debut with Hadyn's C major Cello Concerto at this Singapore Symphony Orchestra concert, where she will direct the orchestra from the cello. She will also take the podium for Prokofiev's witty Symphony No. 5.

This International Collaboration Platform features performances by dancers from the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Dance Department, Young Artists Project Performers (Singapore), the Kim Nam Sick Dance troupe from South Korea and Motus Company from Italy. Part of the Odyssey Dance Theatre's DancINC (International Dancers & Choreographers Residence Festival.

Embark on a fantastical, magical, fun-filled high-sea adventure with your favourite Hi-5 friends - Stevie, Casey, Lauren, Tim and Dayen - to the Hi-5 Island. You can sing and dance along to your favourite Hi-5 songs, such as Let's Go Away, Wonderful, Celebrate and Zoo Party, as well as brand new hits.

This play featuring Taiwanese guest director, Fu Hong Zheng, which is based on an original script by late theatre doyen Kuo Pao Kun, has been tweaked so that the Old Tree symbolises the elderly in today's society.

Diploma in Theatre English Drama students at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts present Maxim Gorky's play featuring wretched souls from a sleazy boarding house who spend their days telling stories and debating the merits of two different views of life. Directed by Andrew Mowatt.

Inspired by the original version of Dear Nobody, this play focuses on the consequences of pre-marital sex and the subsequent impact on the lives of those involved. It tells the story of 18 year olds - Alyssa and Dan - who are in their final year of school and planning to pursue university studies abroad. But Alyssa becomes pregnant. By Buds Theatre Company.

This cabaret concert from Malaysia which features three women - an Australian, a Malay and an Indian - is about relationships, dreams, desires, travels and the heart. It features Tria Aziz, Elvira Arul and Zoe Taylor with Llew Marsh on the piano, Rohnie Tan on violin with creative music direction by Marsh. Part of Causeway Exchange, it is being held in conjunction with Asia in the Edge.

Written and directed by Brian Seward with music by Bang Wenfu, this multi-layered, mulit-coloured and mad mayhem and fun production of The Arabian Nights will take you on a magic carpet ride through tales, such as Aladdin and The Enchanted Lamp and Sinbad The Sailor.

Enter the dream-like world of renowned Russian clown, Slava Polunin, at his multi award-winning international Snowshow, where a bed transforms into a boat in a storm-tossed sea, a child walks in amazement inside a bubble and Slava is transformed into a train and more.

Singapore funnyman Hossan Leong's new show is about travel - be it Singaporeans travelling abroad or people coming here. Stand to win a pair of tickets to Australia's Gold Coast on Scoot at every show. Directed by George Chan, the show by Dream TV is written by Ben "Mr Miyagi" Lee, and YouTube sensation Hirzi Zulkiflie.

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